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John Cena looks on during Saturday Night’s Main Event at Capital One Arena on December 13, 2025 in Washington DC. (Photo by Rich Freeda/WWE)

Cena loses final WWE match

Alex Galbraith

The most-loved and most-hated man in sports entertainment tapped out to end his career

Authorities used Brown's own transportation to help evacuate students and staff to safer places during the campus lockdown after the shooting on Saturday. (Kyle Mazza / Getty Images)

Shooting at Brown kills 2, injures 9

CK Smith

Providence police say a person of interest is in custody as authorities investigate the deadly campus attack

Jared Leto in "Tron: Ares" (Disney Enterprises, Inc.)

6 soundtracks hit a high note in 2025

Melanie McFarland

From Kpop Demon Hunters to the glorious return of Nine Inch Nails, this year gave us TV and films worth dancing to

Officials are sorting through the crime scene that saw Australia's deadliest mass shooting in decades. The suspects targeted a Hanukkah celebration in what's being called a terrorist antisemitic attack. (DAVID GRAY / Getty Images)

12 shot dead at Australia Hannukah event

CK Smith

Despite decades of strict gun control since Port Arthur in 1996, this shooting highlights global antisemitism woes

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media aboard Air Force One on December 9, 2025, en route to deliver remarks in Pennsylvania. ((Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Getty Images)

Trump strikes Santa, Collins on "SNL"

Alex Galbraith

The president lashed out at reporters and launched an airstrike on the spirit of Christmas in a cold open

Feast of Seven Fishes (Olga Mazyarkina / Getty Images )

Why Seven Fishes is still our feast

Francesca Giangiulio

How an Italian-American Christmas Eve tradition took shape — and why it endures

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., attends a news conference on the government shutdown on Oct. 8, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Mike Johnson's speakership is in trouble

Heather Digby Parton

Like his GOP predecessors, the House speaker is having trouble corralling his unpredictable caucus

New Hampshire candidate Kashima Manzur (L) and Rep. Chris Pappas (R) (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Bill Clark / Karishma for Senate)

New Hampshire’s uphill primary fight

Russell Payne

Kashima Manzur is fighting an uphill battle against Rep. Chris Pappas

Former FBI Director James Comey (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Trump's prosecutions keep crumbling

Garrett Owen

The president's grand legal strategy targeting his perceived enemies isn't working

Dick Van Dyke continues his joyful journey through life as he reaches his 100th birthday on Saturday, December 13, 2025. (JC Olivera / Getty Images)

At 100, Dick Van Dyke is still joyful

CK Smith

The beloved entertainer’s longevity and positive outlook reject today’s obsession with anti-aging optimization

Some Florida officials are asking for childhood vaccines to be downgraded to "optional" to support parental choice over mandated health and safety concerns and decades of accepted scientific research. (Sarah L. Voisin / Getty Images)

FL continues child vax rollbacks

CK Smith

Medical professionals warn this change could bring back preventable diseases and add more to anti-science politics

TSA lines are already every travelers' nightmare, but now they are sharing your data with ICE to catch more "illegal" travelers. (Paul Hennesy / Anadolu / Getty Images)

Flying now comes with ICE enforcement

CK Smith

Civil liberties advocates say the new policy blurs travel security, immigration policing and data privacy

The cast of "The Dick Van Dyke Show," circa 1965. (Bettman/Contributor/Getty Images)

Dick Van Dyke changed TV forever

Melanie McFarland

As the legendary comedian reaches his 100th birthday, Salon examines the impact of his foundational sitcom

Sign language interpreters are everywhere by design. From political events to rap concerts to FEMA press conference, ASL helps those with hearing disabilities understand the world around them and remove the last barrier to receive that necessary and sometimes life-saving information. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)

White House bans ASL interpreters

CK Smith

Disability advocates say the move reflects a broader pattern and a shift toward ableism in the federal government

Peanut butter Christmas cookies (Cappi Thompson/Getty Images )

Umami is a gift to Christmas cookies

Joy Saha

Cookbook author Kat Lieu shares her tips on elevating your festive bakes with this unconventional addition

Jared Kushner at a press conference in Israel on Oct. 21, 2025. (Nathan Howard/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Kushner is at the center of corruption

Sophia Tesfaye

From media mergers to foreign policy, Trump's son-in-law is consolidating power — and making millions

Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Fletcher speaks about her memoir in Washington, D.C., on June 18, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trump is whitewashing American history

Chauncey DeVega

The death of Viola Fletcher, the last survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, underscores what Trump is attacking

Ronald Reagan meets in the Oval Office with a group of Afghan resistance fighters, Feb. 2, 1983. (Bettmann via Getty Images)

Afghanistan's tragedy — and America's

Leila Nadir

In the '80s, Afghans were "freedom fighters." Today, they're despised terrorists. Both stories were made in America

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on June 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

DOJ pressure to "find" UCLA antisemitism

Peter Elkind, Katherine Mangan - ProPublica

Trump admin demanded $1 billion in fines and changes that had nothing to do with antisemitism

Pink Floyd (Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images)

"Wish You Were Here" at 50

Kenneth Womack

Packed with remasters, outtakes and live recordings, this is a celebration of Pink Floyd at their creative peak

An undated photograph of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein (Democrats on the House Oversight Committee)

New Epstein photos show Trump, Clinton

Garrett Owen

President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, and other prominent figures appear in the photos

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 11: Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) walks out of the Senate Chamber on December 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. Two opposing health care bills intended to avert rising health care premiums have failed. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Health care vote suffers in the Senate

Garrett Owen

Without subsidies, the median cost of ACA health care will increase by 18%

(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Craig Barritt / Matt Winkelmeyer / Kevin Mazur / Phillip Faraone / Kevin Dietsch / Andrew Harnik / Saul Loeb / Vittorio Zunino Celotto)

The best takedowns of 2025

Andi Zeisler

From Vivian Wilson to Trevor Noah, these clapbacks delivered rare satisfaction in a bleak year

(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / DON EMMERT / Spencer Platt / Michael Siluk / UCG / IkonStudio)

We can't bomb our way to fewer overdoses

Kassandra Frederique, James Saenz

Gutting addiction treatment while bombing boats proves America’s drug policy is broken

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